About Annie Walton-Teter

Annie lives in Santa Monica, CA. Raised on the Eastern seaboard, she loves surfing and sailing. Head Surf Instructor at UCLA Marine Aquatic Center since 2008, Environmental Point Person and Sales Associate at the Santa Monica Patagonia.
Other passions include music, photography, skiing, climbing, hiking, camping, social justice, gardening, food, sustainability, perma-culture, making the world a better place.

On the color and form opening of Eye Yi Yi May 25th at Vintage Market Place in Malibu. The opening was a blast, plenty of color, pink flamingos, live music, yummy snacks and drinks. Friendly non-snooty crowd, nice seeing old friends and making new ones. Andy generously auctioned off one of his works to the highest bidder giving the proceeds to West LA/Malibu Surfrider. YAY! There is a variety of so-cal cool paintings and fairly priced prints. Show is running May 26th- July 1st, 2017.

Andy’s playful and colorful style reminds me of the word frolic and leaves much up for the imagination in a positive way. These new works do not disappoint. One of my fave’s is the “Wife Aquatic” because a) she is wearing a big hat. I love hats! Or even if I really hate hats, I have surrendered to waring them for sun protection. b) We are aquatic wives, women and girls at SLAG. Check out the show after a surf day at the beach or doing a local hike.

Have you always wanted to learn to surf? Would you like to take your surfing to the next level? Join Heather Alley and myself for a one week intensive. Space is limited and we are really looking forward to this trip! For more info and to reserve your spot click here.

Calling all co-sailing, surf, adventure enthusiasts. I have been following Captain Liz Clark’s voyage on Swell since she set sail back around ten years ago. At that time she was not a Patagonia Ambassador nor a Nat Geo Adventurer but boy has she earned both those titles. We are so excited to have her stop in Santa Monica. Join us if you can. For her 10 ways to make a better world, click the link above. Hope to see you there!

Surf Ambassador Belinda Baggs will be at Patagonia Santa Monica tonight, hosting an evening dedicated to ladies who surf. Festivities start at 7:00 PM with music from The Brave Kind, so come on down, bring a girlfriend, and enjoy words of wisdom from one of longboarding’s greatest! @patagoniasm 1344 4th Street Santa Monica, CA.

It has been a long road but thanks to surfers like Lisa Andersen and Layne Beachley and many before. Going all the way back to surfing queens in Hawaii-paving the way, on today’s pro-circuit women and girls are seeing better or more equal prize money. This Swatch/Hurley Pro at Trestles 2015 the women will win equal prize money to their male counterparts for surfing the same waves. Woot Woot! Thank you for listening ASP! Read article here.

This Saturday 4-18-2015 come join us at Paradise Cove, CA for the annual SUP4cleanwater fundraiser. There will be races, raffles and a big beach party after. You can even rent a board from Pro-SUP and all proceeds go to keeping Santa Monica Bay clean.